Lite plan: Free tier

Take advantage of this perpetually free Lite tier for evaluation and development with a fixed amount of provisioned throughput capacity and storage.

Limited throughput and storage

Capped at 1 GB of data storage

Provisioned throughput capacity fixed at 20 reads per second, 10 writes per second and 5 global queries per second

The Lite plan provides access to the full functionality of IBM Cloudant® for development and evaluation. The plan has a set amount of provisioned throughput capacity, as shown, and includes a maximum of 1 GB of encrypted data storage.

The Standard plan is priced based on provisioned throughput capacity allocated and data storage used, with billing prorated hourly. Note that costs are for the provisioned throughput capacity allocated and not on the metered volume of requests.

The Dedicated Hardware plan is a bare metal environment provisioned for the sole use of your Cloudant instance(s) for isolation, security, data sovereignty and compliance purposes. It is an add-on fixed price with billing pro-rated daily.